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E-book, Lesson Plan

Description:

This lesson begins with students visiting a web site that gives them practice in counting money. The second site goes one step further in that students are given opportunities to make change for make-believe purchases.

Subjects:

Social Studies > General

Social Studies > Economics

Education Levels:

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

Keywords:

Characteristics of Money - Currency - Goods - Money Supply - Services

Language:

English

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STUDENTS WILL

Review recognition of United States coins and bills.

Practice giving change.

Investigate the new design for quarters.

INTRODUCTION

This lesson begins with students visiting a web site that gives them practice in counting money. The second site goes one step further in that students are given opportunities to make change for make-believe purchases. Then students examine old and new quarters comparing and contrasting the designs. After a brief discussion of the United States government, mint, the third site shows close-ups of the newly designed quarters and provides more information about the United States mint and its work.

The student activities which close the less United States mint, or revisit money web sites for more practice.on allow boys and girls a chance to design a new quarter for their own state, to create a game using fun facts about the